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A Home in the Wilderness

Early Settlement Toolkit

Look at the image from the Whitelaw Map. List what you see:

Now use the magic lens to look at the picture. List anything new that you see:

plus  Did you see...
the woman helping the man bring home the hay?
plus  Did you see...
the hay shocks in the cleared fields?
plus  Did you see...
a stream, dam, and pond for the cows?

Look at “A Home in the Wilderness.” List what you see:

Now use the magic lens to look at the picturee. List anything new that you see:

plus  Did you see...
the tall trees with few limbs? They had recently been in deep forest.
plus  Did you see...
the stumps in the fields? The field has not been cleared for a very long time.
plus  Did you find...
any farm animals?
plus  Which image best depicts Orford at the time the Mann family settled?
"A Home in the Wilderness"

It is said that Lydia and John Mann spent their first winter in a one-room, bark-covered hut until they could build a cabin.

 There were no roads, just footpaths with marked trees in the deep forest.

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